Definition
Memory safety prevents undefined behavior from invalid memory access (use-after-free, double-free, buffer overflows) through language design, runtime checks, or static analysis such as borrow-checking.
Key Points
- 2026-10-11: valen language explores group borrowing—relaxing strict shared-xor-mutable toward use-after-free prevention while targeting rust interop (2026-10-11-valen-memory-safety-borrow-checking)
- Design lineage influenced Carbon, Ante, Plecra, Zeta, Fang, and other experimental systems per Evan Ovadia